Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-15
M E DI CA L. INH A LA Il o N
Combined nth Constitutional Remedies.

nUR TREATMENT OF THE DISEASES
~ of the respiratory passages consists In
the employment of Medical Inhalation for
Its dilect effects on the diseased organs;
and, at the same time, adopting such hy-
gienic measures and administering such
med icines by the stomach as will most ef-
fectually purify the blood., give tone to
the nervous system, aud build up ana
strepgt the general constitution. In
other words, we employ combined local
and general treatment.
What is MEDICAL Inhalation? Before
stating briefly what Medical limitation
is, we propose, in as few words as possible,
to state clearly what 1t is not.
Medical Inhalation is not cure-all. a
nOstrum, or a panacea. II is not specific
rem edy for any disease. 1t is not quack
medicine, or advertised to cure any or all
the ills that flesh is heir to, an intended to
q talisman, whose possession insures health
to its pnssessor without the intervention CT
sense or judgment. Medical Inhalation is
none of these things.
Medical Inhalatlon is simply aud solely
method of taking medicines by inhaling or
breathing them into the lungs instead of
swallowing them into the stomach. By In.
halation, the proper medicines are applied
directly to the seat of the disease, in the
nose, throat or lungs; and 1t is clear to
plicable Inhalation is in the disorders of
the organs named. If you have scalded or
burned the surface of the body /, or wounded
any limb or member, you do not swallow
the remedy intended to heal the disor-
ganized tissue. On the contrary, you apply
it directly to the seat of the wound or in
Jury. Why. then. when suffering from ca
tar of the nasal pat sages or throat. or at
ficted wi h ulceratio'. of the lungs, should
you rely on medicines taken into the
stomach?
Medical Inhalation not only applies the
proper healing remedies to the seat of the
disease, but 1t applies the remedy In the
gaseous or vapor0us form, in which form,
as is well known, medicines act most power.
fully. How much greater, for example. is
the effect of a drachm of chloroform, when
inhaled or breathed, than many times the
quantity when swallowed into the stomach
The same is true of chlorine, of iodine. and
of many other substances By inhalation
and thence sent wandering through the
system in search of q malady which may be
mainly or entirely local one; but by this
method the proper remedy is applied dl-
rectly to the diseased organ. Who. after
studying the anotomy of the lungs: can
doubt that Inflammation and liberation of
the air-tubes and air-cells. the direct appli-
cation of the healing medicine by iDhala.
ton to the diseased parts, Is the correct and
rational method of treatment? Who. on
the other hand, can be SO irrational as to
believe that the proper and direct way to
reach the diseased surfaces of the iir-
passages in this case, is by the way of the
stomach? Physiology teaches us that the
membrane, or skin, lining the air r-passages
of the nose, throat and lungs, is only a
slightly modified form of the same structure
as that which covers the external surface
of the body. Why, then, should local treat
ment be proper and necessary for 1nfiam-
n nations, congestions and ulcerations OF the
one and not be equally SO in the case of the
other?
Our experience and success in treating
diseases of the nose, throat and lungs de-
monstrates, beyond all question, that the
true scientific treatment OF these diseases Is
that treatment which combines the local
effects of medical inhalation with the con
stitutional effects of systematic remedies,
given in the usual way by the stomach.
One or both methods must be adopted as
the circumstances demand, and such rene
dies must be employed as the experience
and judgment of the physician have proved
to be proper in each particular case.
Medical advocates of In ha la ton.
Physicians who were educated twenty
years ago or more, and who have not kept
up with the times in the advance in medi-
cal science, have very little idea OF the great
importance all leading writer's now give to
Medical Inhalation in the treatment OF pull
monary diseases. To such an extent Is this
true that no patient should intrust his case
to any physician who is not well prepared
and thoroughly equipped with everything
necessary for the administering, OF the
proper remedies by the method of inhala-
tion.
The numerous cures effected by inhala-
lation in cases seemingly past all help and
the uniform success attending It's usa IN
diseases of the respiratory organs, renders
1t obligatory on every honest physician to
at once apply himself to gain practical
knowledge Of the Inhalation. or, If that is
not possible, be is at least bound to decline
to treat such cases.
Among the most eminent physicians OF
the age who are fully awakened to the value
of Medical Inhalation in these diseases are
the following:
Dr. La Roche, OF the Paris Academy of
Medicine; DR.. Frederick Langhaus, OF Ber-
Archibald Dickson, of Edinburgh, Scotland
DR.. Richler, DR.. Cameron. DR.. GurdOn Buck,
Prot. Albert hhert, the celebrated Dr.
Hughlings Jackson. the venerable Dr.. Rob-
Wells, Dr.. Hilton Flagge, DR.. q. P. Wood.
Drs: Fritsch and Hitiig, Dr. Fothergill, DR..
Richard Thompson, DR.. r. Carpenter,
Drs. Anstie, Ball, Fuller, Lancereaux,
Krauss. Huguenie, Heller, orth, Corrigan,
Fenwiok, and many Others
With scarcely a single exception every
medical authority of eminence recognizes
the wonderful potency OF this new method,
and the coming generation OF physlclans
are certain to be thoroughly educated
clans here and there who have made "Dis-
eases Of Respiration" a life study tn It are
fitted in any way to employ the wonderful
resources of Medical Inhalation in the cure
OF these diseases.
The Durability OF Consumption.
For five years the celebrated DR.. I. H
Bennet waa pathologist to the yal In-
frmary of Edinburgh, and in his great
work on Consumption" he makes the fol-
lowing statement:
During this period l made upwards of
20Oo post-mortem examinations of persons
dying from various diseases, and was
con stautly meeting with cases in which
found cavities in the lungs from consump.
ton, which had evideutly healed up or
cicatrized years before the death of the
subject. Nature did not seem to have been
successful in restoring the wasted lung
substance. but the cavities were dried up,
the subject lived for years, with diminished
lung power 1t is true, but otherwise in good
health"
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